Why Incumbents Fail – And What That Means for Sustainability.
The core assumption and focus of people who work to drive sustainability through markets – as corporate leaders, investors, NGOs or thought leaders – is that we need to convince existing companies and their shareholders that sustainability is first...
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 2
To the extent that we are today eroding the carrying capacity on which future generations would otherwise depend, our way of life could be characterized as intergenerational “predation”; to put it crudely, the old are “eating” the young.
Disruptive Markets: What Sustainability Really Means for Business
Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or...
If you take a charitable tax deduction, you should actually give to charity
When donors contribute to a DAF, they take a tax deduction — often a big one. But those funds can then sit in the DAF for years, even generations, before they’re granted out to charities working to meet real...
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 1
Human Predators, Human Prey: Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part 1 This is Part 1 of a three-part essay that uses predation as a metaphor to unpack power relations in human societies. (Read part 2 and...
How the Ultra-Rich Can Help Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
Down the street from my office, a luxury residential tower is rising, the fifth such project in Boston in the last decade. The 61-story “One Dalton Place” is being marketed as “New England’s tallest and most luxurious residential building.”...
Drew Dellinger: “If we had more imagination, we could have less capitalism”
Listening to Drew Dellinger‘s poetry regularly gives me goosebumps. Very shortly it will give you goosebumps too. He is a US-based writer, poet, speaker and teacher whose passions revolve around ecology, social justice, cosmology, social change and transformation. He uses arts...
The Community Resilience Reader interview – Go Green Radio
Virtually every American city and town has an insurmountable backlog of infrastructure maintenance and replacement. In addition, cities from coast to coast are grappling with the worsening effects of climate change, such as stronger storms and greater temperature...
Can Climate Change Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline?
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
It sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?
Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.